Akio Kashiwagi

Akio Kashiwagi (1938-3 January 1992) was a wealthy Japanese real estate investor who was known for his high-stakes gambling habits at Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

Biography
Akio Kashiwagi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1938, and he ran the Kashiwagi Shoji Company, a real estate and investment business. Kashiwagi made $100,000,000 a year and $1,000,000,000 in assets. Kashiwagi regularly played baccarat at casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City in the United States, betting $100,000 or $200,000 a hand. In 1973, Tangiers Casino owner Frank Rosenthal hired his pilot to claim that his plane out of Las Vegas had mechanical failure, and he gave him a free rome at his casino/hotel so that he could waste all of his money in dice games, making nice profits for the casino. In 1990, he bet $12,000,000 while at one of Donald Trump's casinos, and he left the casino with $2,000,000 in chips, having lost $10,000,000. On 3 January 1992, Kashiwagi was stabbed as many as 150 times with a samurai sword at his home near Mount Fuji in an unsolved murder.